Load Board Questions

Is this something you're trying to build for yourself?

 

I guess I'm missing something, but that's how all load boards work. What you're explaining is called brokers and loadboards.

 

Naw, he's looking at more of the Uber (people hauling) style. Maximum reward for the least amount of work, less how the traditional brokerage side works.

 

Here's a hint. If you think you have a winning idea, don't blab it out to the whole world, especially not in a section of a public forum given over to the people you'd be in direct competition with.

That said, I personally think that idea is a dog with fleas, so I suppose no real harm has been done.

 

How would that be different from existing load boards? No brokers involved...shippers post their loads directly and let some randomness decide who takes their freight? I don't think so. That's what they need brokers for. Even UBER freight and Convoy are not just apps but brokers with apps.

There is a lot of useful phone app ideas though,
1. Invoice Creator for an individual o/o - simple app taking pictures into pdf and let you enter some basic data and email it to a customer/brokers with a POD attached. It should allow to maintaine customer contacts and their billing info. Would also display some analytical data such as rate per mile, costs incurred en route, how many days since it was sent etc.
2. Multi - stop optimizer/Route Cost Estimator: Best routes with or without tollways fees, fuel prices (IFTA included or not) etc
3. Dispatch log - recording every move with a rate or deadhead/showing approximate fuel cost predictions based on existing fuel prices and could be synchronized with the Multi stop Optimizer/Route Cost Estimator
4. Maintenance/Repair LOG
5. Days spent en route - per diem record log.
Best if all combined in one!
6....?
Some of them could be done in Excel, a little VBA programming and YouTube training should be sufficient to accomplish that.

Post Scriptum
Anyone savvy in app development please go to Seattle, WA and help Convoy to redo their big time sucking app!!!!!

 

I'd also like to point out that this concept has already been beaten to death. There's a ton of start ups that have a lot of financial backing, that work on something like this. Oddly enough, it hasn't hit my business in the slightest.